January, 2016 archive
Flint-Hearted 0
Emails reveal the poisonous callousness of Rick Snyder and his Republican cohorts to the poisoning of the people of Flint, Michigan.
What did come through, however, was the Snyder administration’s callous dismissal of complaints from the people of Flint, who had been complaining of foul-smelling, brownish water for some time—water that turned out to contain high levels of dangerous, poisonous lead, coliform and even fecal bacteria—saying they were overly concerned with “aesthetics.”
A Sept. 25, 2015, email from Snyder’s Chief of Staff, Dennis Muchmore, to the governor is perhaps most damning, accusing the people of Flint of using their children’s lead exposure as a “political football.”
Follow the link, but, mind you, you’ll have trouble reading it all the way through.
Boys and Their Toys 0
John Young cuts to the heart of the motivation for “open carry.”
So I empathized with those who came to the Texas Capitol on New Year’s Day with fancy toys openly displayed on their hips and shoulders, from AR15s to the latest from the minds of Glock. Joyous they were. The fourth-graders had finally taken over.
He goes on to point out that there’s more to it; there’s also the bully factor. Follow the link for the rest.
In related news, there’s pistol porn on the Strip.
The Right To Rude 0
In my local rag, Phil Terrana explains in detail what has been mentioned here from time to time: Those who complain of “political correctness” demand the privilege to offend others without penalty. A nugget:
For these people, becoming better people has a ring of phoniness to it, a sense of dishonesty. Because they can’t change their ways, they can’t understand how others can. They’ve began calling this civility by a new name — political correctness — and attached a stigma to it.
Read the rest.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness starts young.
A 2-year-old boy is hospitalized after he accidentally shot himself with a gun Saturday morning.
Dispatchers say the call came in around 12:30 a.m. The toddler accidentally shot himself with a gun in his home, located in the 2700 block of Edison Road in South Bend.
If he’s been packing, this wouldn’t have happ–oh, wait.
Hey! Rubio! 0
Daniel Ruth points out that consistency is not the hobgobblin of that little mind:
Now Rubio has joined the chorus of hand-wringers, promising that if he is elected president, “We’re going to be America again.” Just what that means isn’t entirely clear, since America always has been America.
Details at the link.
Stray Thought 0
The buffoons on the Weather Channel seem perpetually surprised that, in a snowstorm, snow that falls from the sky lands on the ground.
Everybody Must Get Fracked 0
Did fracking open a wellspring of methane?
State regulators don’t seem to know what caused the leak, or how to stop it. But newly uncovered documents show that hydraulic fracturing was commonly used in the Aliso Canyon gas storage wells – including a well less than a half-mile from the leak.
Follow the link. Get the fracks.
Light Bloggery 0
Break time.
No Place To Hide 0
Thom talks with the ACLU’s Chad Marlow about privacy.
Immunity Impunity
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It it’s not captured in a photograpn, it must not have happened.
